Assuming the severity of the H1N1 virus doesn't change in the next few months, Amarilloans should not fear a deadly outbreak of the virus this fall, the area's top health official said Tuesday. “I don’t think it’s going to be catastrophic,” said Dr. Todd Bell, public health authority for Potter and Randall counties. “I think this is basically going to boil down to a busy flu season.”
Bell gave those comments late Tuesday at meeting of the Amarillo Bi-City-County Health District Board.
He said the flu season, which lasts from October to March and peaks in Texas around February, may start a bit earlier this year because of the virus commonly referred to as swine flu.
“I would not be surprised if the health-care system is stressed or strained,” Bell said.
Amarillo had just one confirmed case of the H1N1 virus through July, when state and national health officials stopping tracking individual cases.
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